Abandoned Shopping Cart Email Reminder

spawnie69:

Ok, this worked once and only once. I receive emails that the cron ran but never get anymore email reminders. Is the email sent only once?
I have it set it up for sending every hour. So I assume everyone with a filled cart who has signed out will receive an email every hour until they do something about it. Is this correct?
This module has been very frustrating, I keep trying different commands thinking I did something wrong but receive no emails reminding me of my cart.
But, the module only sends the email once. It doesn't nag them every hour to go back to their cart.

The code appears to do this:
a) when a customer logs in or creates an account, a flag is set
b) when the cron job runs, it looks for any abandoned carts for customers that have a flag set
c) it emails whoever has the flag set
d) and clears all the flags that were set since the last time the cron job ran

For them to be reminded again they would need to log in again.

I got it now. Is there another recover type sales mod for 1.54 that you know of that I may be missing?
All I could find is a pay version, this one good ole Recover Cart mod which is only good for 1.53.

thank you

spawnie69:

I got it now. Is there another recover type sales mod for 1.54 that you know of that I may be missing?
All I could find is a pay version, this one good ole Recover Cart mod which is only good for 1.53.

thank you
From a cursory review of the Recover Cart plugin, I'm pretty confident it can be used on v154 without issue.

DrByte:

From a cursory review of the Recover Cart plugin, I'm pretty confident it can be used on v154 without issue.

Good to hear, I will try at a demo site and report back. thanks doc!

Anyway to set I should be copied on the email so that I know if this truly works?

ShopVille:

Anyway to set I should be copied on the email so that I know if this truly works?
If there's no admin setting for it, why not just log in as a customer, put something in your cart, and walk away for a couple hours

DrByte:

If there's no admin setting for it, why not just log in as a customer, put something in your cart, and walk away for a couple hours

I like to stay in the loop and be cc'ed on all emails

In the Zen Cart orders.php class, at the bottom is where emails are sent, first to customer, then admin. You could use that code as inspiration for writing new code into your plugin to send another email to your admin.

ianhg:

@DrByte Upload as requested
Thanks. The changes are mostly good. You missed a couple changes in the "install" file, which I've updated in the zip.

Latest download is now compatible with MySQLi: Abandoned Shopping Cart Email Reminder

have installed and everything went smooth excep for cron job, when checking the email logs i keep getting error "PHP: syntax error, unexpected '$' in /home3/xxxxx/public_html/store/cart_reminder_cron.php on line 17"

any help would be appreciated thanks!

That's really strange. Line 17 is the first PHP statement in the file. The rest before it is just comments. Shouldn't be any error there.

What version of PHP is your cron running?

What do I need to do to see the contents of a shopping cart before the customer finalizes the order? And how do I know how many abandoned carts there are out there?

Hello, is this mod compatible with 1.5.6c?

It looks as though it should be.

Great thank you!

One additional question… Is it possible to set a flag so that the email to the customer is only sent once? It would be quite annoying to email them every hour, or even every day about an abandoned cart.

bowerstech:

One additional question… Is it possible to set a flag so that the email to the customer is only sent once? It would be quite annoying to email them every hour, or even every day about an abandoned cart.
I think once the reminder has been sent once that is it. You can determine how many hours before the reminder is sent after the shopping cart has been abandon, so 1hour or 6hours etc. Your database should have a table SCART which I think is used to temporary hold abandon cart info which should be cleared once cron has done it's work. Important to set cron correctly.

Hi

Is this plugin compatible with ZenCart 1.5.6?

dharrison:

Hi

Is this plugin compatible with ZenCart 1.5.6?

I am following up on this inquiry from 11 months ago… Has this might been carried forward to 1.5.6 or 1.5.7?

After a cursory look through the code I don't see why it would have any big issues on v156 or v157.